If publishers want to wait until a certain period of time before they allow e-books to be issued, that is up to them. Just as it is the right of the customer to wait to purchase the books until they become paperbacks or e-books. If publishers think e-books are going away, they are naive. The American public increasingly wants them for many reasons.
I do use Kindle, but even if I didn't, I would feel the same way. I debated all of this before I got one, which was a present. I for one can list many reasons why I prefer e-books am I have always been a bookworm. I debated which company to get the e-book reader from and I investigated all of them. If someone doesn't want an e-book reader, that is up to them. People can choose other stores to purchase the publishers' books from that won't play nice with Amazon. Books-a-million sells their books at often ridiculously low prices, even on new issues, but you don't hear people complaining about that, except maybe the authors.
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